Windows Won't Shut Down on 1st Attempt

[lcohen999 0]

Help!

 

For some reason when I try to shutdown/reboot my computer the first attempt won't let me, Windows actually aborts the shutdown!

 

In the help and support here is what I am getting:

 

Event Details

Event ID: 1073

Source: USER32

Symbolic Name: WARNING_EW_SHUTDOWN_CANCELLED

Message: The attempt by user %2 to restart/shutdown computer %1 failed

 

Explanation

This event is written when a user or application attempts, but fails, to restart or shut down the computer by using either the graphical user interface (GUI) or the shutdown command.

 

any thoughts on how to fix this??!!?!?!?! Thanks ;(

[iks 0]

Hi

 

It happened for me too, when I was using Lavasoft's Ad-watch 3.0 (it came with Ad-aware 6.0) so I usually closed it before shutting down my computer....

 

Check your running processes in Task Manager and try to find out if something (some process) blocks your shutdown/restart procedure when it is terminated...

 

Good luck,

-Andrej

[lcohen999 0]

yup

 

that is exactly what it was

 

Adwatch killed the shutdown, took me a while to figure it out

 

thanks for the reply!